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Hollywood Strings: Keyswitch Finger Positions

Hollywood Strings: Keyswitch Finger Positions

Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions feature offers composers the unique coloristic writing opportunity of actually playing full lines across positions 1-4 on the string instruments, or to select smaller areas to perform on a single string.

Hollywood Brass 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

Hollywood Brass 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

With the new Hollywood Brass, what you write is what you get. And it’s much faster to learn than Hollywood Strings.

Hollywood Strings Gold Part 1: A Professional Orchestration Pre-Review

Hollywood Strings Gold Part 1: A Professional Orchestration Pre-Review

In this first review, we look at the risk/reward behind Hollywood Strings and The Language of The Bow.

Vienna Suite Power Pan: Brass Positions – A Professional Orchestration<sup>TM</sup> Review

Vienna Suite Power Pan: Brass Positions – A Professional OrchestrationTM Review

In this continuing review, Power Pan continues to demonstrate why it’s the Vienna Suite’s secret weapon.

EW Quantum Leap <em>Spaces</em>: A Professional Orchestration<sup>TM</sup> Review

EW Quantum Leap Spaces: A Professional OrchestrationTM Review

The best way to describe East West’s new Quantum Leap Spaces convolution reverb is with the equation J2W2.

Vienna Suite Power Pan – String Positions

Vienna Suite Power Pan – String Positions

The Vienna Suite’s secret star is the Power Pan.

VOXOS Part 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

VOXOS Part 1: A Professional Orchestration Review

The Cinesamples corporate name says that the libraries the company produces are for film/TV, and by extension, game scoring. This is a very large audience to be sure, but it’s not the only target audience.

L.A. Scoring Strings: An Orchestration Review

L.A. Scoring Strings: An Orchestration Review

Can L.A. Scoring Strings do the most common string combinations Hollywood composers and orchestrators love to use?

Alexander Publishing Study Hall Posts Free Audio Seminar on Divisi Writing

With the release of new orchestral string libraries from Audiobro and EastWest which enable the use of string divisi writing, a free 10-minute audio seminar with matching PDF download has been posted in the Alexander Publishing Study Hall entitled What the Heck Is String Divisi & Is It Contagious? http://alexanderpublishing.com/studyhall.aspx Narrated by Peter Lawrence Alexander, [...]

Arthur Lange and The Spectrotone Chart

Arthur Lange and The Spectrotone Chart

A 66-year old undiscovered gem for orchestration, MIDI mockups and mixing is found in a box, shrink wrapped and ready to go.